Letters to the editor

Published: March 31, 2005 12:00AM

Whatever happened to compassion?
Editor:
I am saddened today. It seems once again our judges have chosen death over life. If they don't kill them coming into the world, they "hurry" them out!
What a sad state our nation is in. I have to wonder if these same people would want to get rid of the children and adults at Ida Sue School who do not fit their idea of a contributing member of society?
I worked at Apple Creek for several years and there were many there who had to be hand or bottle fed. It taught me compassion for others less fortunate and gave me a caring attitude.
I wonder what will happen when all the less than perfect children and adults are gotten rid of before we have had a chance to show our compassion? (There was only one perfect person who walked upon this earth and we murdered Him, too). So I think it has less to do with our idea of perfection than we are just too greedy or uncompassionate. So what happens when we no longer have those to feel compassion for? Will we be a nation of unfeeling people? God forbid!
My mother had a stroke and could only be fed through a feeding tube and the Lord still took her when He decided it was time to call her home. These matters are for His judgment, not mine or some judge to decide, when there was no signed document stating Terri's wishes, only parents who loved her unconditionally and a husband who had moved on with his life with another woman and another family and is trying to say he cares when he has committed adultery.
He could have divorced her and left her parents to take care of her which is all they wanted to do. He could have gotten a divorce at any time. Instead, he had no compassion for Terri's mother and father and siblings who were all willing to care for her. I find it hard to believe he was doing this out of "love."
I pray that we will become a compassionate and caring nation once again. I hate to think of my grandchildren (some who were not planned but nevertheless their parents did not decide they were an inconvenience) growing up in an uncaring and uncompassionate nation. God help us all!
Betty Frary
Big Prairie
How can he still be called a husband?
Editor:
Since the husband of Terri Schiavo has been openly living with another woman for several years and has had two children by her, doesn't that constitute a common-law marriage?
Wouldn't that make the husband a bigamist. Bigamy is against the law. You can't be married to two people at the same time and since that would give Terri the right to a divorce, which she is incapable of getting herself, shouldn't the courts do that for her? That would return custody of her back to her parents.
What do you think?
Margaret Musselman
Wooster